Special Interest Group
Providing a forum for sharing, developing and disseminating research that explores, informs and improves outcomes in education.
We recognise that the field of education is diverse and political and as such this SIG is interested in research that questions educational policy and practice from the early years to higher education and beyond. Our aim is to provoke intellectual debate in a supportive forum that stimulates thinking and inter-disciplinary collaboration to influence government policy making and the funding of education in the future.
This special interest group is concerned with educational effectiveness and improvement and aims to
Professor of Education & Dean at Plymouth Marjon University
Professor Tanya Ovenden-Hope is Provost and Professor of Education at Plymouth Marjon University. In 2018 she developed and opened Marjon University Cornwall based in Truro, which she leads. Tanya is a committed and enthusiastic educationalist...
Lecturer at University of Plymouth
As a lecturer in Early Childhood Studies and Education and Programme Lead for the National Award for SEN Coordination at the University of Plymouth I am interested in questioning education, what education means, what it looks like and where it...
Education Consultant and Educational Researcher (Retired) at University of Durham
Sean Hayes is a retired local government manager who led Performance and Data teams in education departments in several London councils. He remains active as an educational researcher, is a school governor, a member of Reconnect London, a member...
BERA’s Publications Committee is seeking an individual or team (of up to three people) to guest edit issue 167 of Research Intelligence on the theme of ‘Curriculum and Assessment Review:...
Over the past two decades, there has been a proliferation of debates on how to respond to the growing list of challenges posed by digital technologies. The educational responses proposed to deal...
Continue reading blog postWhat could learning spaces in prison be like? This question has guided our reflective research process, prompting us to reflect critically on existing practice and to create an emerging framework...
Continue reading blog postRacism is a shapeshifter that adapts to silence minoritised ethnic voices, unless it is continually made visible. Race research therefore needs continuous development to challenge pervasive...
Minoritised teachers are less likely to stay in teaching than their White counterparts, citing the added burden of racism as a contributing factor (Worth et al., 2022). Ethnic minoritised staff...
Continue reading blog postIn the first decade of this millennium local government researchers in London and Birmingham, England, put their heads above the parapet to address the issue of White working-class children’s...
Continue reading blog postEnglish society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education – beginning with the colourblind, then through multicultural and antiracist phases, and then...
Continue reading blog postEnglish society and its education system have been through several phases of multicultural education. The current context for race, racism and hope education was discussed by Vini Lander in her...
